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Give us some examples of boats. My laptop runs Ubuntu 24.04, and it has been running smoothly, using only 1.2 GB of RAM after booting.
Catamaran, schooner, big ole pirate ship, ferry boat, fishing boat
... What?
He just can't understand little typos :)
That was obviously a joke though, and it wasn't even OP.
Very clever. Seems like a typical Ubuntu hater ;)
So the bloat is on the disk, ISO file size, not on ram or performance or something?
The ISO is big because it contains programs that you can install only if you choose to. You can opt for a minimal installation.
Ok, I see, thanks for the info, man. That's very helpful.